A Sexual History of the Internet, Lecture Performance by Mindy Seu

Nov 7, 2024 | 7 PM (EST) | Charles Street Video (76 Geary Ave)
Stardate 1555.8.

This November, x-ights /cros-sites/, an artist collective, is excited to present A Sexual History of the Internet, a participatory lecture performance by Mindy Seu, part of the series of the public programs of Bad Timekeepers in partnership with InterAccess and Charles Street Video.

Mindy Seu’s 2023 book Cyberfeminism Index introduced a wide-ranging overview of net art and online activism since the origins of the internet. Many of these works argued for embodied technologies and the inherent insertion of our bodies into digital space. Sexuality has always been entwined with technology—from birth control to hormone hacking, camming to sex work, online black books to AI-generated girlfriends. A Sexual History of the Internet, a participatory and immersive lecture performance will invite netizens to expand their understanding of the embodied Internet. This performance lecture is a beta test version of Seu’s project which aims to go live next year. 

Registration is required as this event has limited seating. If you are no longer able to attend, please email art@interaccess.org to pass your seat to someone else. Thank you!

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION

CSV is accessible from the street by a short set of stairs or a ramp.

About Mindy Seu

Mindy Seu is a designer and technologist based in New York City and Los Angeles, currently teaching as an Associate Professor at University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts. Her expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, and design commissions. Mindy’s ongoing Cyberfeminism Index, which gathers three decades of online activism and net art, was commissioned by Rhizome, presented at the New Museum, and awarded a Graham Foundation Grant.

About Bad Timekeepers

Bad Timekeepers, a transnational initiative led by artist collective x-ights /cros-sites/, founded by Sue Jeong Ka and Lingxinag Wu. Bad Timekeepers reconsiders traditional timelines by proposing alternative temporalities rooted in Asian diasporic, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) experiences. By challenging the pace and linearity of digital capitalism, this ongoing series of events, performances, and discussions disrupts conventional temporal and spatial constructs, foregrounding marginalized narratives within a technology-driven world.

About InterAccess

Founded in 1983, InterAccess is a non-profit gallery, educational facility, production studio, festival, and registered charity dedicated to emerging practices in art and technology. Our programs support art forms that integrate technology, fostering and supporting the full cycle of art and artistic practice through education, production, and exhibition. InterAccess is regarded as a preeminent Canadian arts and technology centre.

About Charles Street Video

Charles Street Video (CSV) is a non-profit production organization established in 1981 to help support media artists. Charles Street Video fosters the creation of media art, encourages experimentation, and develops an artistic community where emerging and established artists gather and achieve their artistic vision.